1980s - Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Overview In the last decade of his life, Roald Dahl's prolific output included some of his best-known stories Close -1980 The Twits Mr Twit hates his wife. Mrs Twit detests her husband. They like nothing more than playing wicked tricks on one another. Sooner or later, things are going to go too far... Even in real life Roald Dahl was very suspicious of men with beards. He thought they must be hiding something sinister. Michael Rosen, who wrote a book called Fantastic Mr Dahl all about Roald and his stories, remembers that the first time he and Roald met, Roald told Michael's son Joe that his beard was "disgusting." Mr Twit has a beard. His is dirty and has bits of food clinging to it. Quentin Blake's illustrations in the original story show cornflakes, tinned sardines and even stilton cheese stuck in the bristles on Mr Twit's face. In fact, he and his equally unlovely wife, Mrs Twit, are just about as horrible as can be - but there are a few characters who might just have found a way to outsmart this nasty pair...

The Twits, first published in 1980, may be about a pair of horrible twits, but it also features one of the most-quoted phrases in all of Roald's books... Find out more -1981 George's Marvellous Medicine George's nasty old grandma needs teaching a lesson. George decides the best remedy for her grumpiness is a special home-made medicine. But Grandma gets more than she bargained for! In George's Marvellous Medicine, published in 1981, George Kranky's Grandma may not anticipate the results of the medicine fed to her by her grandson, but like George, Roald Dahl also had fun mixing marvellous concoctions. He called them witches potions and delivered them to his children just before bedtime. They included ingredients like tinned peaches blended with milk and either pink, blue or green food colouring. His were put together carefully, though - none of the nasty side effects George's Grandma experienced... Roald once said that, had he not become a famous writer, he would have loved to have been a doctor.

In fact, after his son, Theo, had an accident in the early 1960s that led him to develop hydrocephalus (or "water on the brain"), Roald helped to create the Wade-Dahl-Till (WDT) valve. This was a cerebral shunt designed to more effectively drain excess fluid from the brains of hydrocephalus patients. By the time the WDT valve was ready for use Theo had recovered enough that he didn't need it, but it went on to be used in countless operations. Today, Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity continues this work, helping seriously ill children and young people to live a fuller and happier life. Find out more -1982 Revolting Rhymes No nursery rhyme is quite as it seems when Roald Dahl has re-written it. Hungry wolves would be advised to watch their step when Little Red Riding Hood is about - and as for Cinderella's prince, well, let's just hope he keeps his head... Revolting Rhymes was first published in 1982 and was the first of Roald's collection of comic verse for children.

With illustrations by Quentin Blake, Revolting Rhymes sees Roald take six well-known fairy stories and give them a wholly new set of Dahl-esque twists. Still much-loved over 30 years later, the phrase "revolting rhymes" even found itself into the Royal Shakespeare Company's Matilda The Musical. In his song 'Revolting Children,' Matilda composer and lyricist Tim Minchin has Matilda's classmates sing the lines: "We are revolting children -1982 The BFG The Big Friendly Giant is unlike other giants. For a start, he doesn't like to eat people and it's not long before he becomes orphan Sophie's very best friend. The BFG was written in 1982. The idea for the story had begun several years before, with a sentence scribbled in one of Roald Dahl's Ideas Books - exercise books he used to write down some of the thoughts that came to him and were sometimes later turned into stories. Just like The BFG. The idea of a giant who captured dreams and kept them in bottles for children to enjoy while they were asleep was one Roald had been thinking about for some time.

In Danny the Champion of the World, he was the character in a bedtime story Danny's father told him. And Roald had even told the story of The Big Friendly Giant to his own children, climbing up on a ladder outside his daughters' bedroom and using a bamboo cane to pretend to blow happy dreams in through their window. In The BFG, the dream-hunting giant takes orphan Sophie - named after Roald's first grandchild - back to his cave in Giant Country, where he lives surrounded by nine other fearsome giants who spend every night guzzling down humans. Or, as the giants call them, human beans.The BFG speaks in quite a turned-around way, but we always understand him. His language is called gobblefunk. He tells Sophie: "Words...is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around." Roald wrote down a whole list of words The BFG might use, including "whoppsy-whiffling" and "squeakpip".

This list of words and the Ideas Books are now housed in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Roald's home town of Great Missenden - and the Museum is also just down the road from a house that inspired the orphanage The BFG snatches Sophie from in the story. The BFG won the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award in 1982. In 1989 it was turned into an animated film featuring the voice of David Jason. More than 30 years later, The BFG remains a much-loved character. And of all his stories, Roald Dahl said that The BFG was probably his own favourite. Find out more -1983 Dirty Beasts The Dirty Beasts are truly horrid. There's the rumbling Tummy Beast, a not-as-stupid-as-he-looks pig, and the oh-so-vile Crocky-Wock the crocodile... Dirty Beasts was published in 1983 and, with Revolting Rhymes, is another of Roald Dahl's classic collections of comic verse for children. In the nine poems included there are a host of wicked creatures getting up to some extraordinary things...

In 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned composer and conductor Benjamin Wallfisch to compose new orchestral works based on three of the poems included in Dirty Beasts. The world premiere of the pieces - The Anteater, The Porcupine and The Toad and the Snail - takes place in spring 2014. The nine poems included in Dirty Beasts are: The Pig -1983 The Witches Witches absolutely detest children. To a witch, a child smells like dogs' droppings. And now the Grand High Witch is planning to get rid of every child in England - can anybody stop them? The Witches tells the story of a brave young boy and his Norwegian grandmother as they battle against England's child-hating witches. It continues to feature in lists dedicated to the scariest children's books more than 30 years after it was first published. Especially around Halloween. When he was a child himself, Roald Dahl used to spend every summer holiday with his family in Norway, where he was inspired by bedtime stories of witches and magic. He wrote about these holidays in Boy: Tales of Childhood.

It is also said that the grandmother in The Witches was partially inspired by Roald's own mother. Roald dedicated the book to his wife, Liccy. A film version of the story, starring Angelica Huston as the witches' leader The Grand High Witch, was released in 1990. The main difference between the film and the original story is the ending - in the book, there is no spell cast to change the boy's state back to what it was before the witches found him. The film also gives its central character the name Luke, whereas in the book we don't find out the name of either the boy who narrates the story or his grandmother. In 1983, the year it was published, The Witches won three awards: The New York Times Outstanding Books Award, The Federation of Children's Book Groups Award and The Whitbread Award. Find out more -1984 Boy: Tales of Childhood The unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller, Boy speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.

Boy: Tales of Childhood, published in 1984, is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl. In it, he tells us about his experiences at school in England, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, and the pleasures and pains of the local sweetshop in Llandaff, Wales. The story of how Roald came to write Boy is almost a tale in itself. It started with The Witches. In an early draft of that book, which has an unnamed young boy with a Norwegian grandmother as its narrator, there were three chapters that went into great detail about the boy's childhood. These chapters were actually drawn from Roald's own memories. So the boy in The Witches had a lot in common with his author. An editor called Stephen Roxburgh was working with Roald at the time, and he thought that those three chapters belonged somewhere else. He suggested to Roald that he might like to re-use them in a book about his own early childhood. Roald did not want to write an autobiography but he thought that this was a very good idea. As he said himself in the introduction to Boy: "This is not an autobiography.

I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten." And so, a year after The Witches, along came Boy, with its tales of boazers, goat's tobacco and the dreaded Mrs Pratchett. Find out more -1985 The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company has just moved in to the old wooden house not far from where Billy lives. He'd rather have a wonderful sweet-shop, but when he meets the members of the Company - the Giraffe, the Pelican and the Monkey - he can't believe his eyes. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is another of Roald's books for younger readers. It started out with three characters, but no story. Quentin Blake liked the idea of a giraffe, as he'd never drawn one before. He also knew he could have fun with a pelican's beak. And Roald Dahl loved the monkey previously drawn by Quentin for The Enormous Crocodile , so insisted he was included too. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me was published in 1985.

At the end of the story, the monkey sings Billy a song, the words of which are carved into stone slabs around the base of a bench which sits just near Roald Dahl's grave: "We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me." You can visit Roald Dahl's grave in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in Great Missenden. It's just down the road from the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre . Find out more -1986 Going Solo Going Solo tells of how, when he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa - and a series of daring and dangerous adventures began... Continuing from where he left off at the end of Boy: Tales of Childhood, Going Solo focuses on Roald's adult life before he began his career as a writer. From plane crashes to snake bites, it takes us through some of the amazing things he experienced while living in Africa, to his time as an RAF pilot during the Second World War.

As he said in Boy, Roald didn't think of these collections of stories from his own life as straightforward autobiography. In the introduction to Going Solo he says: "A life is made up of a great amount of small incidents and a small amount of great ones. An autobiography must therefore, unless it is to become tedious, be extremely selective, discarding all the inconsequential incidents in one's life and concentrating upon those that have remained vivid in the memory." Going Solo was published in 1986, the year Roald turned 70. The stories he selected to tell give a fascinating insight into some of the experiences that helped shape his later life. Find out more -1988 Matilda Matilda Wormwood is only five years old, but she is a genius. Unfortunately her parents are too stupid to even notice. Worse, her horrible headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a bully who makes life difficult for Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, and her friends. But what Miss Trunchbull doesn't know is that Matilda has a trick or two up her sleeve... Matilda won the Children's Book Award shortly after it was published in 1988, and it has continued to delight audiences ever since.

Early drafts of the story were very different to the one we now know. At first, Matilda was a wicked girl who eventually used her powers to help her teacher solve her financial problems - by fixing a horse race. In the end, though, it became the magical story now known to children the world over. In 1996 a film version of Matilda was released. Directed by Danny DeVito - who also starred as Mr Wormwood, alongside Mara Wilson as Matilda and Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull - the film went on to become a cult classic. In 2010, The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical, written by Dennis Kelly and with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, opened in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, to great critical acclaim. The production transferred to London's West End a year later, and in spring 2013 the show opened on Broadway. Matilda was Roald Dahl's last long children's book. Find out more -1989 Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life The sweet scents of rural life infuse this collection of Roald Dahl's country stories, but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth...

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life brings together seven of Roald Dahl's short stories set in and around the Buckinghamshire countryside where Roald lived. The collection was first published in 1989, but all of the stories were originally written in the late 1940s. They are based on Roald's experiences with his friend Claud, a man who lived in the nearby town of Amersham. Claud was an experienced poacher and shared Roald's passion for "gambling in small amounts on horses and greyhounds." From troublesome cows to rat-infested hayricks to maggot farming, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life brings the tales of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. And many of the characters that feature in this collection went on to inspire and appear in other stories: there's Parson's Pleasure, which features an antiques dealer and bogus clergyman called Boggis, later the name of one of the farmers in Fantastic Mr Fox. And Danny's dad, the filling-shop owner with some ingenious methods for catching pheasants from Danny the Champion of the World, makes an early appearance inThe Champion of the World.

The seven stories in the collection are: Preface The Twits Book Review and Ratings by Kids - Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Paperback: 76 pages Publisher: Scholastic Inc; 1st edition (January 1, 1980) Language: English Paperback, 76 pages Published on January 1, 1980 by Scholastic Inc ISBN-10: 0590136011 Sign in to use your custom avatar. Sign in to use your custom avatar. riri06 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 3:05 pm 55 stars I LOVE ROALD DAHL! So far, from the books I've read they're about magical adventures! I definitely recommend this book because they take you into another world where you're in the book! Hope you enjoy or watch the movie! 0 Reply ninacreekside Friday, July 25, 2014 at 10:04 am The Twits will make you laugh out loud! The tricks they play on each other are jut horrific!

0 Reply turtlenicole Monday, June 16, 2014 at 6:53 pm In the book the Twits two wicked people always play tricks on each other. They only cooperate on one thing, they love bird pie. So they catch some birds, puts them into pie and eats them. The upside down monkeys help the birds avoid the evil pair and get some revenge on them! 1 Reply 20jrast Monday, September 17, 2012 at 12:56 pm This is probably roald dahls' funniest book! The twits tie their married one to balloons, put a frog in their bed and much more nonsence:) 1 karim45 Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 12:28 pm 55 stars i so agree The Twits by Roald Dahl Part 1 - YouTube The Twits by Roald Dahl Part 1 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented.

This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 14, 2009 Roald Dahl was probably best known for inventing the wild world of Willy Wonka, but he wrote dozens of books, many of which were as funny and charming and full of invention as anything involving Oompah Loompahs. The Twits are probably the most revolting of Dahl's literary creations. Here are the first few chapters from Dahl's book The Twits, with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Go to Amazon.com to get your own copy ofThe Twits. It's cheaper than Internet access, and twice as disgusting! Category The Twits - Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Published in 1980 Synopsis Roald Dahl's The Twits was first published in 1980. It tells the tale of a pair of horrible twits and the tricks they like to play on each other. Background Background Mr Twit hates his wife. Mrs Twit detests her husband. They like nothing more than playing wicked tricks on one another. Sooner or later, things are going to go too far... Even in real life Roald Dahl was very suspicious of men with beards.

He thought they must be hiding something sinister. Michael Rosen, who wrote a book called Fantastic Mr Dahl all about Roald and his stories, remembers that the first time he and Roald met, Roald told Michael's son Joe that his beard was "disgusting." Mr Twit has a beard. His is dirty and has bits of food clinging to it. Quentin Blake's illustrations in the original story show cornflakes, tinned sardines and even stilton cheese stuck in the bristles on Mr Twit's face. In fact, he and his equally unlovely wife, Mrs Twit, are just about as horrible as can be - but there are a few characters who might just have found a way to outsmart this nasty pair... The Twits, first published in 1980, may be about a pair of horrible twits, but it also features one of the most-quoted phrases in all of Roald's books...

Find out more about the period in Roald Dahl's life during which The Twits was published 1000+ images about Roald Dahl on Pinterest | Revolting rhymes, Esio trot and Georges marvellous medicine UK, UK Royal Mail, Royal Mail, Mail, stamp, postage, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl stamps, Roald Dahl postage, Roald Dahl UK Royal Mail, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stamp, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory postage See More Roald Dahl | Roald Dahl Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ” –Roald Dahl Roald Dahl was a British author, he was famous for his ingenious short stories and macabre children's books. Dahl's taste for cruelty, rudeness to adults, and the comic grotesque fascinated young readers, but angered many adult critics. Several of Dahl's stories have been made into films, including Matilda, directed by Danny DeVito in 1996. Biography Edit Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales, of Norwegian parents.

His father, Harald Dahl, was the joint owner of a successful ship-broking business, "Aadnesen& Dahl" with another Norwegian. Before emigrating to Wales, Harald had been a farmer near Oslo. He married a young French girl named Marie in Paris; she died after giving birth to their second child. In 1911 he married Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg. Harald died when Dahl was four years old, and three weeks later his elder sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. The family had to sell their jewellery to pay for Dahl's upkeep at a private school in Derbyshire. When Dahl was 13 he went to a public school named Repton. His years at public schools in Wales and England Dahl later described without nostalgia: "I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely. I couldn't get over it. I never got over it..." (from Boy: Tales of Childhood, 1984) Dahl especially hated the matron who ruled the school dormitories. These experiences later inspired him to write stories in which children fight against cruel adults and authorities.

"I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended," one of Dahl's English teachers commented. "Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy," Dahl once said. "The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is born is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all." In WITCHES (1973) behind the mask of a beautiful woman is an ugly witch, and in MATILDA (1988) Miss Trunchbull throws children out of windows. Both parents are eaten in JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1961), but the real enemies of the hero of the story, a little boy, are two aunts. At eighteen, instead of entering university, Dahl joined an expedition to Newfoundland. Returning to England he took a job with Shell, working in London (1933-37) and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1937-39). During World War II he served in the Royal Air Forces in Libya, Greece, and Syria.

He was shot down in Libya, wounded in Syria, and then posted to Washington as an assistant air attaché to British Security (1942-43). In 1943 he was a wing commander and worked until 1945 for British Security Co-ordination in North America. In the crash Dahl had fractured his skull, and said later: "You do get bits of magic from enormous bumps on the head." While he was recovering from his wounds, Dahl had strange dreams, which inspired his first short stories. Encouraged by C.S. Forester , Dahl wrote about his most exiting RAF adventures. The story, A Piece of Cake, was published by the Saturday Evening Post. It earned him $1,000. The same story was later included in OVER TO YOU: THE STORIES OF FLYERS AND FLYING (1946). Dahl's first children's book, THE GREMLINS (1943), about mischievous little creatures, who eventually join the Allied forces in the Battle of Britain, caught also Walt Disney's attention. Later it inspired a popular movie.

Dahl's collection of short stories, SOMEONE LIKE YOU (1954), gained world success, as did its sequel, KISS KISS (1959). The two books were serialized for television in America. A number of the stories had appeared in the New Yorker. Dahl's stories were seen in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-61) and in the Tales of the Unexpected (1979) series. In 1953 Dahl married the successful and wealthy actress Patricia Neal; they had one son and four daughters – the eldest daughter Olivia died of measles when she was eight. Dahl's wife suffered a series of brain hemorrhages at the age of 38; while pregnant with their fifth child she had a stroke. She described her recovery and her husband's solicitous help in the autobiography As I Am (1988). The marriage ended after other family tragedies; she also discovered that Dahl had been having an affair with her friend, Felicity Ann Crossland, who was 22 years his junior. Dahl married her in 1983. Patricia Neal received in 1964 an Oscar for her performance in Hud.

She died in 2010. The only stageplay Dahl ever wrote, THE HONEYS, failed in New York in 1955. After showing little inclination towards children's literature, Dahl published JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1961). It was first published in the United States, but it took six years before Dahl found a published in Britain. James and the Giant Peach was followed by the highly popular tale CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1964), which has inspired two film adaptations. The story dealt with one small boy's search for the ultimate prize in fierce competition with other, highly unpleasant children, many of whom come to sticky ends as a result of their greediness. It presented the central theme in Dahl's fiction for young readers: virtue is rewarded, vice is punished. In the end the fabulous chocolate factory is given to Charlie, the kind, impoverished boy. THE WITCHES (1983) won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1983. The judges described the book as "deliciously disgusting".

Later Felicity Dahl collected her husband's culinary "delights", such as "Bird Pie", "Hot Frogs", and "Lickable Wallpaper" in Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes (1994). MY UNCLE OSWALD (1979) was Dahl's first full-length novel, a bizarre story of a scheme for procuring and selling the sperm of the world's most powerful and brilliant men. Dahl received three Edgar Allan Poe Awards (1954, 1959, 1980). In 1982 he won his first literary prize with THE BFG, a story about Big Friendly Giant, who kidnaps and takes a little girl to Giantland, where giants eat children. In 1983 he received World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement award. Dahl died of an infection on November 23, 1990, in Oxford. Dahl's autobiographical books, BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD and GOING SOLO, appeared in 1984 and 1986 respectively.

The success of his books resulted in the foundation of the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery in Aylesbury, not far from where he lived. "Good ghost stories, like good children's books, are damnably difficult to write. I am a short story writer myself, and although I have been doing it for forty-five years and have always longed to write just one decent ghost story, I have never succeeded in bringing it off. Heaven knows, I have tried. Once I thought I had done it. It was with a story that is now called 'The Landlady'. But when it was finished and I examined it carefully, I knew it wasn't good enough. I hadn't brought it off. I simply hadn't got the secret. So finally I altered the ending and made it into a non-ghost story." (from Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, 1983) Dahl's stories have unexpected endings and strange, menacing atmospheres. The principle of "fair play" works in unconventional but unavoidable ways. Uncle Oswald, a seducer from 'The Visitor', gets seduced.

In 'Parson's Pleasure' an antique dealer tastes his own medicine and the Twits from THE TWITS (1980) use glue to catch birds and meet their own gluey ends. In 'Lamb to the Slaughter' the evidence of a murder, a frozen leg of lamb, is eaten by officers who in vain search for the murder weapon. The story was inspired by a meeting with the writer Ian Fleming at a dinner party. Puns, word coinages, and neologism are more often used in the children's stories, whereas in adult fiction the emphasis is on imaginative plots. In addition to his children's books, Dahl also aroused much controversy with his politically incorrect opinions - he was accused of anti-Semitism and antifeminism and when a prowler managed to get into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom, Dahl was wrongly suspected of giving to the unwanted guest the whole idea in one of his books, The BFG (1982). For further reading: Roald Dahl by Chris Dowling (1983); Roald Dahl by Alan Warren (1988); Roald Dahl: A Biography by Jeremy Treglown (1994); St James Guide to Young Adult Writers, ed.

by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (1999); Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of children's writers by Julia Eccleshare (2002) Selected works: THE GREMLINS, 1943 - The Gremlins movies uses the name but are unrelated: first 1984, dir. by Joe Dante; the second 1990, Grewmlins 2. dir. by Joe Dante. - One episode of The Twilight Zone Movie (1983), scripted by Richard Matheson, drew on Dahl's original idea OVER TO YOU, 1945 - Helppo nakki ja muita kertomuksia (suom. Erkki Haglund, 1992) SOMETIME NEVER, 1948 SOMEONE LIKE YOU, 1953, rev. 1961 - Rakkaani, kyyhkyläiseni: jännityskertomuksia (suom. Pentti Saarikoski, 1961); Joku kaltaisesi (suom.

Pentti Saarikoski, 1970) - film adaptations: 'The Taste', TV film 1952, dir. by Richard Goode, starring Peter Lorre; 'Taste', TV film 1954, starring Ed Begley, Patricia Breslin, Joseph Schlidkraut; 'Taste', TV film 1955, starring Leonard Elliot, Violet Heming, Diana Millay, Rudy Vallee; 'Taste', TV film 1967, prod. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), dir. by John Glenister, starring Donald Pleasence, Leonard Rossiter, Maureen O'Brien, Marion Mathie THE HONEYS, 1955 (play, prod. in New York City) KISS, KISS, 1959 - Rakkaani, kyyhkyläiseni: jännityskertomuksia (suom. Pentti Saarikoski, 1961) / Joku kaltaisesi (suom.

Pentti Saarikoski, 1970) JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, 1961 - Jaakko ja jättipersikka (suom. Kimmo Pietiläinen, 1995) / Jaakko ja jättipersikka (suom. Peikko Pitkänen, 2009) - animation film 1996, prod. Allied Filmmakers, dir. by Henry Selick CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY , 1964 - Jali ja suklaatehdas (suom. Aili Nissinen, 1971) - films: 1971, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, dir. by Mel Stuart, starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Leonard Stone 2005, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, dir.

by Tim Burton, screenplay by John August, starring Johnny Depp, Charlie Bucket, Helena Bonham Carter - Jali ja suklaatehdas 36 HOURS, 1965 (screenplay, based on 'Beware of the Dog', film dir. by George Seaton, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor; TV film Breaking Point, 1989, dir. by Peter Markle, starring Corbin Bernsen, Joanna Pacula, John Glover, David Marshall Grant) THE MAGIC FINGER, 1966 - Taikasormi (suom. Päivi Heininen, 1998) YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, 1967 (screenplay based on Ian Fleming 's novel, with Harry Jack Bloom) CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, 1968 (screenplay based on Ian Fleming 's children's book, with Ken Hughes) TWENTY-NINE KISSES FROM ROALD DAHL, 1969 FANTASTIC MR. FOX , 1970 - Kekseliäs kettu (suom.

Panu Pekkanen, 1978) - film 2009, dir. by Wes Anderson, voices: George Clooney, Owen Wilson, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe SELECTED STORIES, 1970 THE NIGHT-DIGGER, 1971 (screenplay based on Joy Cowley's novel, film dir. by Alastair Reid, starring Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay, Jean Anderson) CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR, 1972 - Jali ja lasihissi (suom. Päivi Heininen, 2000) / Jali ja mahtava lasihissi: seitsenosainen lastenkuunnelma (suom. Pekka Ojalehto) PENGUIN MODERN STORIES 12, 1972 (with others) SWITCH BITCH, 1974 - Alahuuli (suom. Raija Mattila, 1975) DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, 1975 - Me salamestarit (suom.

Eeva Heikkinen, 1977) / Iskä ja Danny maailmanmestari (suom. Päivi Heininen, 1999) - film 1989, prod. Children's Film and Television Foundation (CFTVF), dir. by Gavin Millar, screenplay by John Goldsmith, starring Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack, Jean Marsh THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND SIX MORE, 1977 - Henry Sugarin ihmeellinen tarina ja kuusi muuta (suom. Jaana Kapari, 2003) CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR, 1978 THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF CHARLIE AND MR WILLY WONKA, 1978 THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE, 1978 - Suunnattoman suuri krokotiili (suom.

Panu Pekkanen, 1978) THE BEST OF ROALD DAHL, 1978 TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, 1979 - TV series 1979-1988, 26 episodes, prod. Anglia Television TASTE AND OTHER TALES, 1979 MY ONCLE OSWALD, 1979 - Oswald-eno (suom. Pentti Nieminen, 1981) / Oswald-eno (suom. Seppo Heikinheimo, 1992) THE TWITS, 1980 - Nilviöt (suom. Sami Parkkinen, 1991 GEORGE'S MARVELOUS MEDICINE, 1980 - Ilmarin ihmelääke (suom. Asser Korhonen ja Antti Mäkinen, 1989) MORE TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, 1980 - TV series 1979-1988, 26 episodes, prod.

Anglia Television THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN AND OTHER STORIES, 1980 A ROALD DAHL SELECTION, 1980 THE BFG, 1982 - Iso kiltti jätti (suom. Tuomas Nevanlinna, 1989) - animation film 1989, prod. Cosgrove Hall Films, dir. by Brian Cosgrove, voices: David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Ballard Berkeley, Michael Knowles, Don Henderson ROALD DAHL'S REVOLTING RHYMES, 1982 - Tautisia tarinoita (suom. Kimmo Pietiläinen, 1996) ROALD DAHL'S BOOK OF GHOST STORIES, 1983 TWO FABLES, 1983 THE WITCHES, 1983 - Kuka pelkää noitia (suom. Sami Parkkinen, 1990) - film The Witches, 1990, dir.

by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Jane Horrocks, Anne Lambton, Rowan Atkinson BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD, 1984 - Poika; Yksinlentoon (suom. Seppo Sipilä, 2004) DIRTY BEASTS, 1984 THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME, 1985 - Kirahvi, Kaani ja minä (suom. Kimmo Pietiläinen, 1996) TWO FABLES, 1986 GOING SOLO, 1986 THE SECOND ROALD DAHL SELECTION, 1987 MATILDA, 1988 - Matilda (suom. Eeva Heikkinen, 1990) - film Road Dahl's Matilda, 1996, dir.

by Danny deVito, starring Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris, Paul Reubens AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE, 1989 RHYME STEW, 1989 - Riimihärkää muusilla (suom. Tuomas Nevanlinna, 2001) ROALD DAHL: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR, THE BFG, 1989 ESIO TROT, 1990 - Annok iplik (suom. Sami Parkkinen, 1993) THE MINPINS, 1991 - Tynkätyiset (suom. Päivi Heininen, 2002) THE VICAR OF NIBBLESWICK, 1991 MEMORIES WITH FOOD AT GIPSY HOUSE, 1991 (with F.

Dahl) THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, 1991 THE DAHL DIARY, 1992, 1991 THE DAHL COLLECTION OF NURSERY VERSE, 1992 (ed.) MY YEAR, 1993 The Twits - Roald Dahl - Google Books 24 Reviews Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer, because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits, once and for all . . . And now you can listen to THE TWITS and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!

Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

Question: Who wrote the 1980 children's book 'The Twits'?
Answer: Roald Dahl